The damage that private schools do to their pupils and to society | Letters
by Letters from on (#47YR7)
Letters from Nick Duffell, author of Wounded Leaders and The Making of Them, and Francis Green and David Kynaston, authors of Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem
Kate Clanchy's polished review of David Kynaston and Francis Green's Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem (The unfairness of fee-paying schools affects all our lives. And they are much cannier than this book allows, Review, 26 January) smartly points out the battle-hardened resilience of Britain's private schools and how difficult they are to budge from their entrenched position in our poor, divided society.
Kynaston, Clanchy, and (not to forget) Melissa Benn clearly do good work promoting rational debate on the issue, but all of them consistently ignore the body of work that my colleagues and I have been presenting for the past three decades, highlighting the psychological problems of our private education.
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